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By the Numbers: Tracing the Statistical Correlation Between Press Freedom and Democracy

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Lee B. Becker

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 38 pp.

"Press freedom is a key component of the general level of democracy in a country. Most often, changes in the state of media freedom have happened in tandem with changes in broader freedoms, therefore making it a sensitive indicator of the overall health of a democracy. In some cases, its deteriorati ... more

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Freedom of the Press 2012: Breakthroughs and Pushback in the Middle East. Selected Data from Freedom House's Annual Press Freedom Index

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Jennifer Dunham

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2012), 40 pp.

"The improvements in the Arab world were the most significant findings of Freedom of the Press 2012: A Global Survey of Media Independence, the latest edition of an annual index published by Freedom House since 1980. The gains came on the heels of eight consecutive years of decline in the global ave ... more

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Press Freedom in 2012: Middle East Volatility amid Global Decline

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Jennifer Dunham

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2012), 12 pp.

"Ongoing political turmoil produced uneven conditions for press freedom in the Middle East in 2012, with Tunisia and Libya largely retaining their gains from 2011 even as Egypt slid backward into the Not Free category. The region as a whole experienced a net decline for the year, in keeping with a b ... more

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Adapting Concepts of Media Freedom to a Changing Media Environment: Incorporating New Media and Citizen Journalism Into the Freedom of the Press Index

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Courtney C. Radsch

ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2012), pp. 13-22

"The present article discusses how the new categoryof “citizen journalist” fits into the overall media environment and how the Freedom House Freedom of the Press methodology has been changed to incorporate this category." (Abstract)

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Monitoring and Measuring Press Freedom on a Global Scale: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Freedom House Index

Karin Deutsch Karlekar

In: On Media Monitoring: The Media and Their Contribution to Democracy

Josef Trappel; Werner A. Meier (eds.)

New York; Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2011), pp. 25-36

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On Media Monitoring: The Media and Their Contribution to Democracy

Josef Trappel, Werner A. Meier (eds.)

New York; Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2011), xii, 306 pp.

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Print and Broadcast Media Freedom: Disparities and Opening

Karin Deutsch Karlekar

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 27 pp.

"Using historical data from Freedom House's Freedom of the Press index this report assesses regional trends regarding differing levels of print and broadcast media freedom. While an initial set of data covering 1980-88 shows a clear pattern of print media ranked as freer than broadcast media in ever ... more

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